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Find Nano-Influencers by Niche & Country via API (NoxInfluencer Alternative)

Filter 1.8M+ Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators by follower range, country and niche to build a nano-influencer shortlist in one API call, then vet each one and find a contact email - a developer-friendly alternative to influencer discovery dashboards like NoxInfluencer.

Nano-influencers - creators with roughly 1,000 to 10,000 followers - tend to have close-knit audiences and cost far less per post than big names, but they're hard to find by scrolling. The creator database behind /v1/influencers/search lets you filter by platform, country, follower range and niche, and returns the matching channels as JSON.

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What counts as a nano-influencer?

There's no official cut-off, but the usual tiers are nano 1K-10K followers, micro 10K-100K, mid-tier 100K-500K, macro 500K-1M and mega 1M+. Set min_followers and max_followers to the band you want.

1. Search the creator database

POST /v1/influencers/search filters by platform (instagram, tiktok, youtube), country, min_followers / max_followers and niche tags - each comma-separated, matching any. Similar tags are matched too (skincare also finds skin care). It's a database query, not a live scrape, so it answers fast. As of September 2026 it covers about 683,000 Instagram, 683,000 TikTok and 521,000 YouTube creators across 228 countries - roughly 177,000 of them Instagram nano-influencers.

2. Rank by engagement, not reach

Each result carries followers, avg_views and engagement_rate where known. At nano scale engagement is the number that matters - sort by it and drop accounts with no data.

3. Vet and contact

/v1/profile/about shows an account's join date and country straight from Instagram, and /v1/influencer/email looks up a public contact email for a channel.

Coming from NoxInfluencer or a similar dashboard?

Influencer platforms such as NoxInfluencer are built around a web dashboard. This API returns filtered creator lists as JSON instead, so you can pipe them into a spreadsheet, CRM or outreach tool - and enrich them with live Instagram data using the same key.

Full example (Python)

# Get an API key: https://rapidapi.com/goodstobkal-goodstobkal-default/api/instagram-scraper57
HOST = "YOUR-API-HOST.p.rapidapi.com"
HEADERS = {"x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY", "x-rapidapi-host": HOST}
BASE = f"https://{HOST}"

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    f"{BASE}/v1/influencers/search",
    params={
        "platform": "instagram",
        "country": "US",
        "min_followers": 1000,
        "max_followers": 10000,
        "tags": "skincare,beauty",
        "total_influencer": 100,
    },
    headers=HEADERS,
    timeout=60,
)
resp.raise_for_status()
creators = [c for c in resp.json()["results"] if c.get("engagement_rate") and c.get("followers")]
creators.sort(key=lambda c: c["engagement_rate"], reverse=True)

for c in creators[:10]:
    email = requests.post(
        f"{BASE}/v1/influencer/email",
        params={"channel_url": c["channel_url"]},
        headers=HEADERS,
        timeout=120,
    ).json().get("email")
    print(f'@{c["username"]:<24} {c["followers"]:>7,} followers  '
          f'{c["engagement_rate"]:.1%} ER  {email or "-"}')

Replace YOUR-API-HOST and YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY with the values from the listing's Endpoints tab on RapidAPI.

Frequently asked questions

How do I find nano-influencers on Instagram?

Call /v1/influencers/search with platform=instagram, min_followers=1000, max_followers=10000 and a niche in tags such as skincare. Add country to target one market.

How many followers does a nano-influencer have?

Usually between 1,000 and 10,000. Micro-influencers are generally 10,000 to 100,000.

Is there an API alternative to NoxInfluencer?

If you want creator search results as JSON rather than a dashboard, /v1/influencers/search filters Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators by country, follower range and niche in one request.

How many creators can one search return?

total_influencer sets it, capped by plan: Basic 100, Pro 1,000, Ultra 10,000, Mega 100,000.

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